Laundry marker



E. 8. MIX.

LAUNDRY MARKER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 1. 1920..

INVENTOR I BY H us ATTORNEY UNITED sures I EDWIN S; MIX, OF ROCHESTER, NEW-YORK.

P T moF LAUNDRY MARKE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN S. MIX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry Markers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a device for marking articles of clothing temporarily in a public laundry.

For the purpose in question it is common to use a safety-pin of ordinary form, to which a sheet-metal tag or-labelis attached, this tag having a number by which the article of clothing is identified.

It has been found that a safety-pin so used is frequently detached from the article to which it has been applied, during the operation of the laundry machinery, which results in great inconvenience and loss; and the object of the present invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive marker, of the type in question, in which such accldental detachment of the pin will be prevented.

To the foregoing end it is proposed, in ac cordance with the present invention to use a sliding locking device, cooperable with the two limbs of the pin in such a manner as.

to lock them adjustably against the relative movement.

The'invention is more fullydescribed in connection with the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form thereof. In

these drawings, Fig. l is a side-elevation,

from the rear, of a marker embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a front-eleva tion of the tag and adjacent parts of the In the drawings' the invention is illustrated as embodied in a marker comprising a safety-pin 5, having the .usual- 'eneral form of such devices, and provided w1th the 1920. Serial at-376.5291 I the limbs of the pin. The pin differs from the ordinary form in the respect that one of its limbs is provided with one or more recesses 10, these recesses being formed, in the illustrated pin, by bending a portion of the wire to a sinuous form. a

When the pin is used the plate 8 is first slid toward the bent portion of the pin, and the pin is then attached to the article in. the usual manner. The plate is then slid towards the head of the pin as far as is permitted by the bulk of the material penetrated by the pin, thus bringing it into engagement'with one or the other ofthe recesses 10. Owing to the resiliency of the wire of which the pin is formed the recesses tend toprevent sliding movement of the plate, which is thus retained in the position to which it has been moved, and the plate in turn locks the pointed end of the pin against the movement by which it may be disengaged from 'the shield. The locking function is reinforced also by the bulk of the material. which is confined between the,

limbs of the pin adjacent to the shield.

not necessarily, employed also as a tag, be-

ing stamped or otherwise marked with a number as shown in Fig. 3.

The invention is not'limited to the embodiment thereof hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings, but it may be embodied in various other forms within the scope of the following claims;

I The invention claimed is:

1. A laundry-marker comprising:asafety. i pin provided with a recess on the inner side" of one of its limbs; and a locking-device slidable on both limbs of'the pin and havin surfaces engaging the inner sidesthereo the limbs ofthe pin pressing resiliently against said surfaces when the pin is inclosed position and the locking-device in en-- I f 1'00 111g device is yieldingly retained against .sliding'movement and in turn'tends to pregagement with said recess, whereby the lockvent movement of the limbs of the pin to,- q

- wards each other.

2. A' laundry-marker comprising a safety pin provided with a sinuously-bent portion in one of its limbs; and a locking device 7 having opposite marginal portions embrac ing and slidable upon both limbs of the pin.

3. A laundry-marker comprising: a safety:

pin providedwith a sinuously-bent portion in one of its limbs; and a sheet-metal mem her having two opposite marginal flanges sliding movement, in either of a plurality which are perforated to receive, and slide of positions at varying distances from the 10 upon, both limbs of the pin. head of the. pin, and the locking-device be- 4. The combination of a safety-pin and a ing adapted, in each of such positions, to locking-device slidable on and connecting restrain movement of the limbs of the pin the limbs of the pin; the pin and the lock-' towards each other.

ing device being provided With-interengaging means for retaining the latter, against EDWIN S. MIX. 

